Funny ladies Rosie O'Donnell (Nip/Tuck) and Fran Drescher (The Nanny) are working together on creating a new "fun, happy, family comedy" for TV. On Rosie's website, Fran and Rosie teamed up on camera to talk -- primarily about Fran's "cancer schmancer" campaign for public awareness -- but at the end, Rosie and Fran revealed a sitcom they are planning in which they'll star together.There's no question that Fran and Rosie are funny women with loyal fans. The Nanny was a CBS hit for six seasons. Rosie, who more recently has been a source of controversy like her very tumultuous time as a cohost on The View, has also been a success on TV. While she was on The View, the ratings were higher than ever before or since. She also had an Emmy-award winning daytime talk show for six years straight which had a vociferous following.
While Fran and Rosie were gung ho about their sitcom being a real things, Rosie's publicist has said that the project is still in the preliminary stages. Nevertheless, as Rosie's video log attests, the girls are ready to get going.
No word yet on what kind of comedy they have in mind, but I would like to see them as sisters, maybe like the Two and a Half Men formula, where the siblings are forced to live together -- with comic results.
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2-28-2008 @ 12:08PM
Scott said...
I have the title: "Two Most Annoying Women in the World".
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2-28-2008 @ 12:17PM
Cyantre said...
SRSLY
2-28-2008 @ 1:02PM
fausto said...
Rosie O'Donnell already did this type of sitcom on Fox in the early 90's with Melissa Gilbert as her sister.
2-28-2008 @ 1:53PM
h8rain said...
That is exactly what I was thinking!
2-28-2008 @ 1:02PM
Rob said...
Rosie and Fran in a sitcom?
There is no God.
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2-28-2008 @ 1:14PM
Lenny said...
*Dusts off his library card and hauls the TV to the attic*
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2-28-2008 @ 1:52PM
Ric Kaysen said...
Seriously...do you know anyone in Hollywood who isn't planning a sitcom? You can't swing a dead cat in that town without hitting someone who has something "in development". 99.999% of these "projects" never see the light of day. Every dentist, hairstylist and accountant has a script out on spec.
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2-28-2008 @ 2:03PM
Jay said...
They just invented the first major network sitcom for the deaf.
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2-28-2008 @ 2:08PM
D-Bo said...
Setting fire to my tv now...
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2-28-2008 @ 2:32PM
Oreo said...
Fran Drescher plays up her voice and laugh and she seems like a nice woman...
But Rosie?!?! She's a pile of bullshit, no chance this will ever make it.
*Realizes they made Cavemen commercials into TV show*
Oh god this will be on ABC right next to Fatass Jim.
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2-28-2008 @ 10:56PM
Franklin said...
If Drescher didn't amp up her voice I could handle it better and I have to admit I've always found her somewhat attractive. BUT... There is nothing that could get me to watch a show with Rosie.
If your prediction about the "Caveman-was-a-show-so-this-will-be" comes true you realize I will have to hunt you down and run you over with my car. Giving that thought, though, I suppose you'd probably run yourself over long before I ever grabbed my keys. Giving more thought, I would probably just run myself over, too.
2-28-2008 @ 3:02PM
ac said...
We're going to need earplugs.
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2-28-2008 @ 3:49PM
GigG said...
"There's no question that ... Rosie are funny women..."
I think that there is not only a question as to if she is funny or not but also if she is a woman.
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2-28-2008 @ 5:48PM
Oreo said...
I'd go one step further, is she even of the human race.
2-28-2008 @ 6:08PM
Jez said...
I love Fran, woo!
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2-29-2008 @ 2:43AM
SImpression said...
I'm in, i love Fran and Rosie so i'm totally game for this. At least to try it out, if i dont like it then i dont like it.
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3-01-2008 @ 12:20PM
Libby said...
LOVE ROSIE AND FRAN -- HYSTERICAL!!!
LOVE THEM BOTH ON A SITCOM, THAT WOULD BE A HOOT, CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT.........YES, YES, YES!!!!!!!!
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